Evan E. Richards Website and Cinematography Reference Archive
I started this website about 18 years ago, primarily for myself. The first film I posted was Amélie, so I could study the images wherever I went. I posted them online to my website thinking if other people found them useful, they could use my site too. Then I added another film and another. Today [ ]
I first learned about using artificial intelligence to generate images in March 2022. People were using something called a text-to-image model, a machine learning model that allows you to type a description (called a prompt) and an AI creates an image that matches that description. I looked into it, found out there were a couple [ ]
https://www.youtube.com/embed/oE4J2WFzPeI I don t get a chance to make a lot of films, but this is one I d wanted to make for a while. I d love to make it into a whole series of shorts. We ll see what happens. Enjoy!
I ve been studying editing recently and reading a lot of older books on film theory. Some of it is a little rough going, but a lot of it I ve found very useful.This video is about Vsevolod Pudovkin, a soviet filmmaker whose theories on editing technique are used in virtually every movie you see today. I m hoping [ ]
The American Film Institute nominated the top 50 best shot films of the last decade. Amélie was awarded the #1 spot as the best cinematography of the past decade. I know aesthetics is very much a matter of personal taste, but I couldn t agree more. For my money Amélie is one of the most beautifully [ ]
“I cannot imagine a serious drama, such as Up in the Air or The Hurt Locker, in 3D.” Roger Ebert Film Critic “I hate 3D. After about 20-30 minutes, I m always like, Okay. I get it.’” Jason Reitman Director “I don t particularly enjoy watching films in 3D because I think that a well-shot and well-projected [ ]
I recently had the very exciting opportunity to speak with Mark Vargo, ASC. Mark has worked on some of the most iconic films in the history of cinema like Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark and Ghostbusters (for which he was nominated for an Academy award in 1985). He graciously shared his thoughts on [ ]
I used to work with a cinematographer named Rob Draper (Halloween 5, The Spitfire Grill). He was having me practice one day by shooting a product shot for a whisky bottle. I had set the bottle up in front of a seamless backdrop and put a light in front of the bottle at about a [ ]
Amélie is one of my favorite films. I remember when I saw it for the first time. I watched it on a laptop while sitting in an armchair at my parents house. I had borrowed the DVD from the apprentice of a local potter who s name escapes me now. Watch this movie he said. Its [ ]